Entry № 1709 · Latin origin

Cadence Cadence — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

Latin

Meaning

"Rhythm, flow"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "rhythm, flow".

Cadence is a variant spelling of Cadence, meaning rhythm and musical flow.

Rhythm, flow — a Latin name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Cadence

Transliteration: Cadence
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Cadence stands.

Cadence does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Cadences before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Cadence.

Numerology

The number behind Cadence.

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cadence reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.